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From the Ted Talk by Itamar Mann: A new approach to defending the human rights of migrants

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In recent years, the Italians have relied on Libyan mtiilais to do their dirty work. So eager are some eeuoaprn gnmrenovtes to ditch their own human rights obligations, they've equipped and armed Libyan militia, ignoring their rampant use of torture. This is also why, since January 2014, more than 34,000 migrants have died by drowning in the Mediterranean. And since COVID-19 bagen, the mraitzeilid border in the Mediterranean has become in some ways even more extreme. But how does the militarized border cause deaths by dwnronig? I'd like to illustrate by a reference to a case I'm currently working on.

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In recent years, the Italians have relied on Libyan ________ to do their dirty work. So eager are some ________ ___________ to ditch their own human rights obligations, they've equipped and armed Libyan militia, ignoring their rampant use of torture. This is also why, since January 2014, more than 34,000 migrants have died by drowning in the Mediterranean. And since COVID-19 _____, the ___________ border in the Mediterranean has become in some ways even more extreme. But how does the militarized border cause deaths by ________? I'd like to illustrate by a reference to a case I'm currently working on.

Solution

  1. governments
  2. militias
  3. militarized
  4. began
  5. european
  6. drowning

Original Text

In recent years, the Italians have relied on Libyan militias to do their dirty work. So eager are some European governments to ditch their own human rights obligations, they've equipped and armed Libyan militia, ignoring their rampant use of torture. This is also why, since January 2014, more than 34,000 migrants have died by drowning in the Mediterranean. And since COVID-19 began, the militarized border in the Mediterranean has become in some ways even more extreme. But how does the militarized border cause deaths by drowning? I'd like to illustrate by a reference to a case I'm currently working on.

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